Watchdog or lapdog?
Subtitle: media and the U.S. government
By: Nancy Qian, David Yanagizawa.
Contributors: Yanagizawa, David.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15738; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15738.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S.  government influenced news coverage during the Cold War.  We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S.  government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic allies; and 2) these objectives reduce news coverage of human rights abuses for strategic allies in six U.S.  national newspapers.  To establish causality, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in a country's strategic value to the U.S.  from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S.  and membership on the United Nations Security Council.  In addition to the main results, we are able to provide qualitative evidence and indirect quantitative evidence to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the reduced form effects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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